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220. This Committee controlled the treatment of cases receiving these antibiotics in Government institutions and was responsible for the selection of the cases and the standardising of the records.

221. During the year preliminary work was carried out on the formation of a Pharmacy Board which would control the training and registration of pharmacists in the Colony and draft legislation was being prepared.

IX-MEDICO-SOCIAL WELFARE ACTIVITIES.

222. In September Miss A. M. Ballantyne was appointed Principal Almoner and took over charge of the Almoners sub- department from Miss Cheng Sui Chan who had been acting Principal Almoner.

223. The work of this sub-department has increased steadily and it now represents one of the major activities of the Medical Department. A report on this work will be found in Annexure M.

X-TRAINING OF PERSONNEL.

224. It is the policy of the Medical Department, wherever possible, to train its own technical officers up to the standard set in the United Kingdom, and table 24 sets out the technical groups who have received training during the year and the numbers trained.

TABLE 24.

Technical Officers who have received training during the Year.

Appoint- Resigna- Strength tions 04 31.3.50

Passed

Probationer Masseuses

4

Radiographic Assistants 3

5

Probationer Dispensers

1

17

0

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Laboratory Assistants

T

Assistant Almoners

NI

(Students in training)

4

Nurses

36

31

11

M

Midwives

10

FI

Dressers

7

17

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